I live by Martha lake in Lynnwood, so I thought I would stroll down there this morning at 6:30 to see what was shaking after reading the triploid stocking reports. This is a great little lake and park I bring my daughter to play on the bigtoys and go for walks, and I fish there sometimes when I only have an hour or two to get out.

I get down there and cant park within 5 blocks it seemed. Get to the dock and there is literally a line of people 5-10 deep waiting on the walkway out to the each fishing dock waiting to throw their monster powerbait balls in the water.

I don't use powerbait cause I think the stuff is just nasty (except for fire red powerbait above red hooks for sockeye in LW ) ...I had brought my own worms because they worked well for me there last summer.

I get out there and carefully place my cast in the first 3 degree window I could find and pour a cup of coffee, start people watching.

Next to me, a guy is using two spark plugs tied together for weight, with powerbait lurking on his 6 inch leader.
On about his forth cast he zings the poorly tied setup and one plug flies off, landing about 150 yards out in the lake amongst three boats. The first close call and slew of profanity of the morning.

Later, two fishermen zip by the dock in a 6 ft dingy with a gas-powered weed eater that he rigged with homemade propellers on the eater end, sticking out the back of his boat. I heard from the park ranger lady that he was later ticketed for using a combustible engine on the lake. I think he thought he could hide it or ???

Several fish around 7-8 inches are caught on the dock and these guys are stringing them up. I eventually told one he should throw it back (I think the min is 8"?). Also saw two fish caught bigger than 24".

I think I'll stop explaining there, you get the idea, kinda fires me up enough to start a thread on a thought about this. A total disrespect for the lake, the fish, and other people.
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